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Objet of Desire (and Ire): A 3D-Printed Scale Model of Fenway
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Boston's Fenway Park, Objet used one of their Connex 3D printers to crank out a replica of the stadium, created from blueprints and photographs: (more...)
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NY Design Week 2012 Preview: WantedDesign Q&A with Francois Brument
Following last year's remarkably successful inaugural exhibition at the Terminal Building, WantedDesign is back and bigger than ever as a major satellite event to the 24th International Contemporary...
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Tonight: Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club presents Sam Lanahan of Flextegrity -...
Join us Tonight at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club in lovely downtown Portland, Oregon as Sam Lanahan of Flextegrity expounds on his Buckminster Fuller inspired work with structural materials...
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NY Design Week 2012 Preview: Sinje Ollen's "Clothing for Furniture" at ICFF
Thankfully that's not another pirated version of Arne Jacobsen's Swan chair; it's the work of Harlem-based knitwear designer Sinje Ollen, whose "Clothing for Furniture" project covers the classics in...
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Core77 Photo Gallery: Salone Milan 2012 - Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Photography by Glen Jackson Taylor for Core77 There's so many events and exhibitions all over Milan during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile that you could almost be forgiven for skipping out on the...
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OMA completes the Syracuse Greek Theatre
Rem Koolhaas led OMA's recently completed scenography project for Teatro Greco, or the Syracuse Greek Theatre, a historical landmark in Italy that dates back to the 5th century BCE. Every summer the...
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Digitas is seeking a Senior Art Director US in Chicago, Illinois
Senior Art Director US DigitasChicago, Illinois Digitas—one of the world's leading digital marketing and media companies—is seeking a Senior Art Director, who will be responsible for the conception,...
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Sonya Yong James Puts the Wool in Front of Your Eyes
Atlanta-based Sonya Yong James is the textile designer and fiber artist behind Modern Fiber Lab, which produces handmade, sustainable goods from animal fibers. I work primarily with wool fibers and...
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Visualizing Criminal Networks to Help Police Solve Crime
Graph of the Internet. Law enforcement is an extremely complex line of work, as police officers have to keep up-to-date with events and people in the community, but usually from the sidelines or...
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Putting Dead Tree Branches to Good Use as Household Hooks
You can never have too many wall hooks in your apartment, and mine are always full. But given that your average piece of bent metal will run you $5 a pop at a Manhattan hardware store, I've limited my...
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Got a Boring Product? Make a NSFW Infomercial
With useful but unsexy products, presentation is everything. Until now I thought Dollar Shave Club had the lock on irreverent commercials, but Schticky—whose namesake product is an arguably boring...
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And Now, a CNC-Milled, Honeycomb-Filled Wooden Surfboard
It's been almost exactly two years since New Zealand-based 'maker' Mike Grobelny first set out to make an alaia and over a year since he posted his accomplishment in an extremely thorough time-lapse...
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Tom Sachs' Love Letter to Plywood
photo via the selby Sculptor Tom Sachs happens to have his studio just up the block from me, but the goings-on inside are well-shielded from the street. I'll occasionally pass by just as the doors...
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LIQUID is seeking a Creative Director in Lima, Peru
Creative Director LIQUIDLima, Peru LIQUID, a full service online marketing and communications agency based in Lima, Peru is seeking a multidisciplinary Creative Director who is ready to set trends and...
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The Design Process of Quirky's Click n Cook Modular Cooking Utensils
If you're going to make design predictions, you have to get used to being wrong. I'd have told you Quirky's Click n Cook system of cooking utensils wouldn't sell, and I'd have been incorrect. Invented...
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In the Studio with TOKEN
TOKEN's founder's Emrys Berkower and Will Kavesh have a massive workshop on the ground floor of an old factory on the water in Red Hook, Brooklyn where they're set up to work with glass, metal and...
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Three Interventions Create Public Space in Los Angeles
During the recent CicLAvia, cyclists stretch as far as the eye can see on 7th St. from MacArthur Park into Downtown. All images by the author. Los Angeles is a city of cars. This we know. Public space...
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The Une Bobine Charging Cable/Stand Coils Its Way to Success
This invention is the opposite of the Schticky situation we posted about earlier, where you've got a mundane product and need to spice it up with a lively video; the Une Bobine coil is such a good...
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Meet Aaron Draplin, creator of Field Notes
If you thought Field Notes, the now famous 48-page memo book, was just another Futura-fueled riff on retro design, you obviously never read the statement on the back flap. "Inspired by the vanishing...
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Audi's Crazy Fast Trick Bike
Audi is known for their four-wheel drive prowess, with the Quattro mentality embodied in their very logo. But at yesterday's Worthersee AutoNews 2012 show in Austria, they pulled the sheets off of a...
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